TQ falling off the hammock :)

**noldhor** · 02-19-2016, 19:18

With a netless hammock, do you have some tricks to keep your TQ or sleeping bag from falling down your hammock ? It still happen to me sometimes, I just wake up at night chilling, to find out half of my sleeping bag is outside the hammock on the ground...

**ufdigga** · 02-19-2016, 19:19

One word for you: Knotty Mod.

That's two words.

I'm bad at this.

**SilvrSurfr** · 02-19-2016, 19:21

Plenty of people come up with their own methods. I personally find that not kicking the TQ out of the hammock is all I need to remember.

**noldhor** · 02-19-2016, 19:23

My hammock have the knotty on both side, but its not helping much...

Im kicking it while sleeping thats the problem

I probably move too much...

**ufdigga** · 02-19-2016, 19:24

Hmm... Three minutes, two sarcastic/joking answers. Let me try that again. Here's a great place to start. Hope it helps!

The Original Knotty Mod Thread

EDIT: Well, crap. I guess SilvrSurfr's suggestion was more useful than mine!

**Bubba** · 02-19-2016, 19:27

Originally Posted by ufdigga

Hmm... Three minutes, two sarcastic/joking answers. Let me try that again. Here's a great place to start. Hope it helps!

The Original Knotty Mod Thread

EDIT: Well, crap. I guess SilvrSurfr's suggestion was more useful than mine!

The OP already has the knotty mod.

Hang the foot end higher than the head end. Many do this all the time to keep their centre of gravity from sliding to the centre of the hammock and to allevialte calf ridge pressure. In you case it may help as there will be a little more material at your feet.

**outdoorking1234** · 02-19-2016, 19:29

Just sew some loops on to the top of you TQ and then some to your UQ and clip them together, further keeping your top quilt firmly planted in your hammock.

**gbolt** · 02-19-2016, 19:30

I have never had this problem; but also have a bugnet attached. However, wouldn't the shock cord pad connector work without the pad and just wrapping it around ur body loose enough for you to turn but tight enough to keep the TQ tucked on each side of you and staying in the hammock?

Cheap $5-6 Dollars to purchase and find out (if you didn't order them with the TQ).

**Grumpy Squatch** · 02-19-2016, 19:45

A lot of topquilts/sleeping bags have hang tabs on the foot end. I've seen people tie a piece of shock cord to one and clip the other end to a suspension line or to an inside hook on hammocks that have them.

**SilvrSurfr** · 02-19-2016, 20:05

Originally Posted by ufdigga

Hmm... Three minutes, two sarcastic/joking answers. Let me try that again. Here's a great place to start. Hope it helps!

The Original Knotty Mod Thread

EDIT: Well, crap. I guess SilvrSurfr's suggestion was more useful than mine!

I wasn't joking - I consider it a behavior modification, not an equipment modification issue. It hardly ever happens to me because I learned not to kick my TQ out of the hammock.